WITNESS EVIDENCE WEDNESDAY II: A STATEMENT THAT WAS “BASED ON A COMBINATION OF SPECULATION AND DOUBLE, TRIPLE OR EVEN MORE REMOTE HEARSAY”

We have looked at many cases in which judges have been critical of the way in which witness statements are drafted.  This case is one of the most clear and extreme examples. The defendant (a firm of solicitors) failed to provide any first hand evidence in its defence, the witness statement produced ...